One of the Most Magical Gifts I Ever Received Was the One I Never Told a Soul I Wanted

What a simple bracelet taught me about “hopeless” hopes

Photo by Olya Kobruseva from Pexels (Cropped by author)

Seven years ago, on my first trip to Berlin, I was walking alone late one night when I spotted a window display in Berlin’s reconstructed Medieval quarter, the Nikolaiviertel, that mesmerized me. It was a poster of Miranda Kerr…